The Wizards' New Starting Lineup Looks Like a Glitched Video Game Roster
Lineup alert: Wizards will start Young, George, Dybantsa, Davis, Sarr on Wednesday.
The Washington Wizards just dropped their starting lineup for Wednesday night against the Cavaliers, and it looks like a 2K MyLeague save where someone turned off the salary cap.
According to Underdog NBA, Washington is rolling out Trae Young, George, AJ Dybantsa, Anthony Davis, and Alexandre Sarr. If you showed this starting five to a basketball fan three years ago, they would have assumed you were hallucinating.
You have Young running the point, throwing lobs to a massive frontcourt of Davis and Sarr, while Dybantsa operates on the wing. It is pure comedy to see this much elite talent assembled on a franchise that spent the last decade as the NBA's favorite punching bag.
The on-court results are still catching up to the roster sheet, though. Washington is sitting at 2-2 on the young season, coming off a frustrating 110-103 loss to the Hornets after dropping 124 on the Bulls just a couple of days prior.
They are clearly still figuring out how to make this fantasy-draft roster function in reality. When you mash this much usage into one starting five, there are always going to be growing pains while everyone figures out the pecking order.
For anyone looking at the betting markets, this rotation is a chaotic puzzle. Figuring out the nightly shot distribution between Young's playmaking, Davis's interior dominance, and Dybantsa's raw scoring is going to give oddsmakers headaches for the next month.
We will see how this super-sized experiment holds up in Cleveland on Wednesday night. If this group actually figures out how to share the basketball, the rest of the Eastern Conference is going to have a massive problem on its hands.